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Old January 26th, 2003, 09:36 AM
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Default Re: The probability theory

Actually, what Ive heard is that Murphy (the scientist himself) is widely misquoted. He actually said (Ive heard) that if there are two ways of doing something, and one is wrong, someone will do it.
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